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FELT BOOT PROTECTOR. No. 380,823. Patented Apr. 10, 1888.

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HARRY SAUNDERS, OF TOLEDO, OHIO, AND EDWARD O. RAUOH, OF

MONROE, MICHIGAN.

FELT-BOOT PROTECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,823, dated April 10, 1888.

Application filed January 19, 1888. SeriaLNo. 261,262. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, HARRY SAUNDERS and EDWARD G. RAUOH, citizens of the United States, and residing in the city of Toledo, count-y of Lucas, and State of Ohio, and at the city of Monroe, county of Monroe, and State of Michigan, respectively, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Snow-EX- cludersand Felt-Boot Protectors; and we hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of our present invention, and one that will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The novelty of our invention will be fully understood from the following description and claim, taken in connection with the accompany drawings.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the felt boot having our improved snow-excludcr and felt-boot protector attached, with a portion of the rubber shoe broken away, showingthe position of our improvement when in service. Fig. 2 is a sectional view showing the relative positions of the component parts.

a is a felt boot.

e is the snow-excluder and protector, which consists of a continuous piece of sheep-skin or other woolly substance, about four inches in width, and of a length sufficient to encircle the felt boot at the point where the top of the rub ber overshoe would come in contact with the same-71. 6., about the ankle.

w is a rubber overshoe.

0 are stitches securing the protector to the felt boot.

In practice a piece of sheep skin of sufficient width and length is secured to the felt boot by the stitches 0, the wool side of the skin being outward, the wool being left at a length of about three-quarters of an inch. The protector is stitched to the boot at a point where the rubber overshoe will come in contact with the protector at or near its center, as shown in Fig. 1. After the protector has been properly secured to the felt boot it is then ready for the rubber overshoe.

The advantage of using a protector of the kind herein described is, when the overshoe is drawn on over the felt boot the rubber coming in contact with the wool will cause the Wool to turn upward, as indicated in Fig. 2, thus preventing any moisture from entering the overshoe. The wool above the top of the overshoe slanting downward prevents the snow from getting between the felt boot and the inside of the overshoe. Ourprotectoris by this means not only a snow-excluder, but acts as a protector also, as the rubber is prevented from coming in contact with the felt boot, thus preventing the rubber from wearing or cutting the boot at the front or back part, also keeping it from cracking at the sides, as is the case in felt boots without a protector.

Another advantage of our protector is, that the rubber overshoe may be buckled tightly around the ankle without interfering with the circulation of the blood at that point, whereas a boot without a protector cannot have the rubber drawn so tightly, as it binds upon the ankle to such an extent as to be disagreeable to the wearer.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent, is-

A felt boot provided on the line to which the top of the overshoe comes with a band having a woolly or furry outer surface, said surface of said band being adapted to present a yielding surface to and to extend over the top of said overshoe to exclude substances from said overshoe, substantially as shown and described.

In tcstimony that we claim the above as our invention we have hereunto set our hands at Monroe, Michigan, this 14th day of January, A. D. 1888.

HARRY SAUNDERS. EDWARD O. RAUOH.

In presence of- J. W. BILLMIRE, I. EATON. 

